From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... seldom allow
an alcoholic to live in ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
2.
... seldom any
questions of timing or caution.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
3.
... seldom be
interested in liquor.
BB p.84,
Into Action
4.
... seldom can.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Just as firmly bound by obligation are
the members of Alcoholics Anonymous,
who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.
5.
... seldom did
I receive patients.
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
During the subsequent
fifteen years I had sense enough never to go to the hospital if I had been drinking, and very seldom did I receive patients.
6.
Seldom did
we look at character-building as ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in
itself, something we
would like to strive for whether our instinctual
needs were met or not.
7.
... seldom drank
at home.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
8.
... seldom had
friends at our homes, never ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
9.
... seldom have
been accomplished by years of ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been
accomplished by years
of self-discipline.
10.
... seldom keep
the precious gift of sobriety ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
It is the great paradox of
A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away.
11.
... seldom kept
me sober even through the ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I used to promise my wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink
no more -- promises which seldom kept me sober even through the day, though I was very sincere when I made them.
12.
... seldom matter
how haltingly we walk.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
13.
... seldom mildly
intoxicated.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
14.
... seldom play,
do not laugh much.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
15.
... seldom suffices.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
16.
... seldom takes
long nor is it very ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
17.
... seldom told
them the whole truth nor ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
18.
... seldom wise
to approach an individual, who ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
It is seldom wise to approach an individual,
who still smarts from our
injustice to him, and announce that we have gone religious.
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